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Mr. Ixolite, a member of Reg Shoe's Fresh Start Club in Ankh-Morpork, is reputedly the last surviving banshee on the Disc. Supposing for the sake of argument that we do have more banshees in the world, the characteristics are:

• All banshees are pale, thin, tall humanoid creatures with very large leathery wings that, at a casual glance, look like a black cape.
• Hearing the screech of a banshee means one is going to die.
  • If the screech is from a civilized banshee, the reason for the above is that the banshee happens to know one is going to die, and custom demands that he/she should screech to warn you.
  • If the screech is from a wild banshee, the reason for the above is that the banshee kills the person after screeching.
  • Wild banshees, if they do exist, also eat all manners of things, such as their dear old granny, or toxic Ankh-Morporkian pigeons.
  • It is likely that while in decline, just enough of a breeding population of wild banshees exists in Lipwig to be a menace to its human population. As demonstrated by Moist von Lipwig in Going Postal, Lipwiger children are routinely taught how to identify the presence of a banshee; whether or not it is interested in you; that if it is interested in you it is for one thing only; and most crucially, the proven strategy for fighting back, if attacked. If there were no banshee problem in Lipwig, then why pass this folklore onto children as one of those potentially life-saving skills?

Mr. Ixolite appears in Reaper Man. Another banshee has an important role in another Discworld book, if you don't want it spoiled for you, do not point at the following link: this book.